ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two people have died after a tractor-trailer went off a highway and down an embankment in Rochester, hitting a municipal worker and another vehicle.
Rochester Fire Department spokesman James Hartman says the tractor-trailer was heading east on Route 104 Friday morning when it went off the highway. Two workers tried to get out of the way, but one was struck and killed while trying to escape a sewer grate.
The trucker was pinned inside his rig and was pronounced dead after firefighters extricated him.
Rochester Fire Lt. Dan O'Toole called it "the most gruesome and tragic incident of my career."
Identities of the victims were not immediately released.
